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Sylwia Macinska; Shane Lindsay; Tjeerd Jellema – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Using eye-tracking, we studied allocation of attention to faces where the emotional expression and eye-gaze dynamically changed in an ecologically-valid manner. We tested typically-developed (TD) adults low or high in autistic-like traits (Experiment 1), and adults with high-functioning autism (HFA; Experiment 2). All groups fixated more on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Yu-Ling Chen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
One of the characteristics of individuals on the autism spectrum is the restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests, or activities which have been considered the result of a direct deficit in self-regulation skills. Peer-mediated intervention (PMI) is one of the ways to support young children on the autism spectrum for following school…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Behavior Problems, Peer Teaching, Young Children
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Simpson, Kate; Adams, Dawn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic (2020) resulted in school closures and changes to school delivery. The aim of this study was to explore how these changes impacted on children on the autism spectrum. As part of an online survey, parents (n = 180) of school-aged children (9.3-16.5 years) on the autism spectrum in Australia were asked an open-ended question on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Hou, Yujia; Yan, Tingrui; Deng, Meng – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Parental involvement plays a vital role in the transition from kindergarten to primary school among children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs); this study aims to explore Chinese parents' experiences of parental involvement during this period. Informed by interpretive phenomenological analysis, semi-structured, one-on-one…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Almalky, Hussain A.; Alqahtani, Saeed S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study examines partnerships between schools and businesses that are intended to foster training and employment opportunities for secondary students with developmental and other disabilities in Saudi Arabia. A survey was developed to investigate employers' perspectives on students' skills, practical strategies for training, and their…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Job Training, Students with Disabilities, Employee Attitudes
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Vasiliki Zarokanellou; Evridiki Papagiannopoulou; Alexandros Gryparis; Vassiliki Siafaka; Dionysios Tafiadis; Vassiliki Ntre; Nafsika Ziavra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: The present study investigates healthcare students' affective, behavioral, and cognitive attitudes toward hypothetical peers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the effect of the ASD label on their attitudes. Methods: The MAS scale for ASD persons in the postsecondary education (Matthews et al., 2015) was translated and adapted in…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, College Students
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Sideropoulos, V.; Dukes, D.; Hanley, M.; Palikara, O.; Rhodes, S.; Riby, D. M.; Samson, A. C.; Van Herwegen, J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
COVID-19 has affected people across the world. The current study examined anxiety and worries during the first UK national lockdown in March 2020. Parents (n = 402) reported on their own anxiety and worries as well as that of their son/daughter with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and typically developing (TD) child (n = 186) at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Closing, Anxiety, Parent Attitudes
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Villegas-Lirola, Francisco – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is socially relevant because of its number and the intensity of the medical and socio-educational response it requires. In Andalusia, one in 70 children will be diagnosed with ASD in 2021. It is much more frequent in boys than in girls, being 5.91 times more likely to present it as a boy than as a girl. The age of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Age Differences
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Emma Leifler; Anna Borg; Sven Bölte – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Consensus is often a prerequisite for communities to develop initiatives to improve practice and create a future together. We investigated the consensus around the perceived educational inclusion of autistic and other neurodivergent students, their caregivers, and their teachers. Seventeen triads of informants plus two single students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Secondary Schools, High Schools
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Céleste Dubé; Alexandre J. S. Morin; Elizabeth Olivier; William Gilbert; Danielle Tracey; Rhonda G. Craven; Christophe Maïano – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study investigated how the school experiences and personal characteristics of youth with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) contribute to their longitudinal trajectories of anxiety. To this end, we relied on a sample of 390 youth with mild (48.2%) to moderate (51.8%) levels of ID, aged from 11 to 22 (M = 15.70), and recruited in Canada (n = 140)…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Anxiety, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Mélina Rivard; Catherine Mello; Shaneha Patel; Marjorie Morin; Diane Morin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The pathway for post-diagnostic services for autism tends to be complex, heterogeneous, and fraught with delays. This situation has repercussions for families' experience with care systems, the quality of early interventions, and family adjustment. To date, studies of parents' point of view on autism services have predominantly focused on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parents, Students with Disabilities
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Rachel Grove; Hayley Clapham; Tess Moodie; Sarah Gurrin; Gabrielle Hall – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autistic girls, women and gender diverse people have specific needs that are underrepresented in research. Research priorities are often established by funding bodies, researchers, parents, carers and health professionals and may not meet the needs of the diverse Autistic community. This co-produced project aimed to identify what research would…
Descriptors: Females, Autism Spectrum Disorders, LGBTQ People, Disproportionate Representation
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Yong-Hwee Nah; Raelene Shu-Xuan Lee; Annabel Shen-Hsing Chen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This pre-test post-test control group design sought to compare the effectiveness of delivering different types of information ([1] factual information vs. [2] factual information + descriptive and explanatory information vs. [3] factual information + descriptive, explanatory + directive information) in an animated video intervention in increasing…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Animation, Video Technology, Intervention
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Cui, Jialiang; Xie, Han; He, Xin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
The Integrated Therapy Model is a practice framework designed to promote multi-disciplinary collaboration to accommodate the holistic needs of children with special education needs. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the model adopted in a pilot preschool in China on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A single-case, ABAB reversal…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Preschool Education, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries
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Jia-Qi Xu; Kean Poon; Mimi S. H. Ho – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The pandemic induced a radical shift to online learning with increased parental involvement. This study investigates the challenges that students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) encountered during the pandemic and the mediating role of parental stress. A total of 294 parents of children with SpLD (mean age = 10.6; SD = 1.5) were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Barriers
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